The New York art world readily proves people wrong. Just when folks say that things stink and flibbertigibbet critics wish the worst on us all because we're not pure enough good omens appear.

The trend in some of the contemporary movements in art but by no means all seems to deny this ideal and to me appears to lead to a purely decorative conception of painting.

Eloquence n. The art of orally persuading fools that white is the color that it appears to be. It includes the gift of making any color appear white.

The challenge is to practice politics as the art of making what appears to be impossible possible.

The biggest problem with every art is by the use of appearance to create a loftier reality.

Wherever art appears life disappears.

The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things but their inward significance.

The anger that appears to be building up between the sexes becomes more virulent with every day that passes. And far from women taking the blame... the fact is that men are invariably portrayed as the bad guys. Being a good man is like being a good Nazi.

Another night I dreamed I saw my father sweeping out the barn floor clean and would not suffer the wheat to be brought in the barn. He appeared to me to be in anger.

Anger will never disappear so long as thoughts of resentment are cherished in the mind. Anger will disappear just as soon as thoughts of resentment are forgotten.